[governance] FW: Egypt, let your people go online!

Sun Jan 30 22:43:38 EST 2011

No Telco in their right mind would willingly shut themselves down in my
view, it would be like cutting off an arm or a leg. Any operator would
benefit from movement of traffic or consumption of bandwidth or call traffic
volumes.

They would have had to be forced. If anyone has a copy of the legal
instrument (I suspect it was an Administrative Decree), I would be happy to
read the same. I am crossing my fingers that it is in English.

Sala

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:27 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brett,
>
> Do you know for a fact that these companies "helped"?  I suspect "We
> really won't know the full extent" of the complicity for a long time
> (if ever.
>
> If you have documented evidence that FT and Voda willingly shut
> themselves down, then I'd be happy to sign.  If no evidence, then it
> smacks of knee-jerk anti-corporatism.
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > ---------------------------- Original Message
> ----------------------------
> > Subject: Egypt, let your people go online!
> > From:    "Brett Solomon" <brett at accessnow.org>
> > Date:    Sat, January 29, 2011 6:53 pm
> > To:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Dear friends and colleagues,
> >
> > Please find the link to the updated campaign we sent out last night
> calling
> > on *Mr Mubarak to tear down the firewall* - It would be great if you
> could
> > tweet this and sign the link below:
> >
> > *Egypt, let your people go online! Sign new
> > @accessnow<http://twitter.com/accessnow>petition calling on ISPs and
> telecos
> > to reconnect #Egypt <http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Egypt>
> > #Jan25<http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Jan25>:
> > http://bit.ly/fqDmCZ*
> >
> > Full text of the campaign below.
> >
> > ----
> >
> > With the help of European companies like Vodafone and Orange/France
> Telecom
> > the Egyptian government shut down the internet and cut the phone lines.
> > Despite news that the mobile phones are back up in some places, Egyptians
> > demonstrating in the streets for a peaceful end to decades of tyranny are
> > facing an attempted blackout.
> >
> > By succumbing to the regime's pressure, Vodafone and Orange/France
> Telecom
> > betrayed their own operating principles and taken away one of the most
> > important tools the people can use to challenge the iron fist of the
> > Egyptian regime.  Egyptian and internationally funded ISPs bear the same
> > responsibility. Join us in calling them out on their complicity in human
> > rights abuse and demanding that they immediately restore service to
> Egypt.
> >
> >  <https://www.accessnow.org/breaktheblackout>
> > https://www.accessnow.org/GetEgyptBackOnline
> >
> > With most of the country without any access to the internet, mobile
> phones,
> > or SMS, it's very difficult to know what kind of human rights abuses the
> > Egyptian government may be committing.  The Egyptian police are shooting
> at
> > unarmed protestors and journalists, setting cars on fire, and spraying
> > protestors with water cannons and tear gas. We really won't know the full
> > extent of the violence until the internet and mobile networks are
> restored.
> > Please sign this petition, which we will deliver to Vodafone,
> Orange/France
> > Telecom and the ISPs, urging them to reopen or maintain the channels of
> > communication:
> >
> >  <https://www.accessnow.org/breaktheblackout>
> > https://www.accessnow.org/GetEgyptBackOnline
> >
> > --
> > Brett Solomon
> > Executive Director
> > Access
> > www.accessnow.org
> >
> > <
> http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/public/staticDisplay.do?language=e
> > n&id=42>
> >
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